Yogurt Pie

Here’s a lovely recipe for anyone with a sweet tooth. It’s like cheesecake – but without the guilt. Made with plain yogurt and a bit of low-fat crème fraiche, the filling is topped and tailed with a delicious, lemon-flavoured……. well, now it gets a bit tricky. It’s not really pastry, because, although it’s crisp, it’s not THAT kind of crisp. And it’s not biscuit either – nor yet cake.

Shortcake, perhaps?

*waves hand dismissively* Anyhoo, whatever it is – it’s delish! All of it!

I found this recipe whilst lurking in the Croatian recipe corner of the internet *flips up collar and chews matchstick moodily*

Oh yes, I go there! *strikes fearless pose* Impressed?

The vanilla slice is the more popular, but I found several fans of the chocolate flavoured slice out there too – varying the recipe by using the simple trick of adding in some cocoa powder.

This is a deliciously simple dessert discovery to have made, because it calls for no fancy ingredients – my favourite kind of recipe. In fact, I had all of the ingredients in the fridge/cupboard anyway, without having to go on a shopping trip.

The trickiest part is grating the topping: You can substitute margarine for the butter, but be sure to use block margarine and not tub margarine, otherwise it won’t chill hard enough to grate.

You can use Greek yogurt if you like, to make it that bit more creamy. I like using just ordinary, plain yogurt because I like the shine it adds to my halo, and not because I can justify eating more than one slice at a time *dares you to say different*

NB this makes a LOT of pie – I bake it in my roasting tin (20cm x 30cm). Although it keeps well in a box in the fridge, I suggest halving the recipe (and reducing the cooking time slightly) if you don’t have a lot of mouths to feed.

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7 Comments on “Yogurt Pie”

I just wanted to tell you how lovely this blog is! I accidentally came across the Great British Bake Off a few weeks ago and I’ve watched all of it already! I must say you were my favorite candidate from the whole series. 🙂 Really nice to see some Dutch recipes around here as well! We are not known to be the best when it comes to food and living here you sometimes forget what the ‘gems’ of our country are, nice to see someone from another country blog about Dutch food. (I figured ‘Boermans’ sounded quite Dutch, haha.)

Hi, I don’t really have anything to say about the recipe but I’m a 15 year old who loves to bake and its so hard to find your bake-off recipes online so I would love to bake some of the things you made in the final and your chocolate and hazelnut macaroons, also I want to make some chocolate and hazelnut cookies but am finding absolutely impossible to find a good recipe; if you could post one. You are an inspiration to me and I hope to use one of your recipes for my final Food tech GCSE project: Just desserts.

It’s me again! Just thought I would let you know that I used the mousse recipe from your chocolate and orange mousse cake! It was delicious and I managed to bag an A*!
Sadly I wasn’t able to carry on with Food Tech due to lack of numbers however I will continue to bake once it’s all over!

Wotchers Sonia!
How fabulous that you did so fantastically – congratulations!
I’m really pleased for you – well done!
So lovely of you to come back and let me know how you did, too – and great that you’re carrying on baking (Honestly, you learn loads doing that, much better than stuffy old lessons 😉 )
I shall keep my eyes open for you on the Bake Off soon!
Happy Baking!
M-A 😀

Wotchers! Another intriguing recipe. Sounds very good. I am really enjoying seeing you again on TGBBO repeats on BBC2 at the moment (iplayer in my case). It is a shame you can’t win this time though! 🙂